Show us your OFG!

The second annual OFG contest is back, and better than ever! The top three IFT student members to snap a photo of the OFG sticker in the most creative location will win FREE registration to the 2013 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo!

It only takes 3 steps to win:

Take a picture of the OFG sticker in a unique place around your city, campus, or on vacation Don’t have a sticker? Download your OFG here.

Like “IFTSA” on Facebook and submit your photo through the Facebook photo app., or upload your photo to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #OFGIFT

Get more votes by sharing with your friends and classmates

You may submit your photos between April 1 – May 14. Voting will start on May 15 and will close on May 31 at 12:00am CST.

To give you some inspiration, IFTSA asked me to come up with a few fun examples- thank you to my labmates (and sweet dog!) for being my models!

Using the GC-O

Hidden in our lab’s whiteboard mural

On Clarissa’s experiments

Sometimes being an OFG can get you in trouble!

Where will you show us your OFG?

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Science Meets Food

The IFT Student Association (IFTSA) is a forward-looking, student-governed community of IFT members. Through competitions, scholarships, networking, and leadership opportunities, you’ll set yourself apart from your classmates (unless they’re members too).

Check out this diagram Thomas. I used it for an undergraduate presentation that I did recently in which I was discussing how sensory and instrumental data go together. Essentially, it’s a regular GC, but instead of just going to a quantitative detector, such as a mass spectrometer, the molecules are split between an MS and a “sniffer port”, so you can smell the compounds as they are eluting off the column and then relate them back to flavor in a much more tangible way. I have only worked with one once, so I bet Bethany can give a much better description, but this diagram will help:

Love this! So fun! Can’t beat free registration to the AMFE…such a great experience.

GC-O is a really neat tool. I have used it once in a Sensory class. I am currently using 2D-GC for my experiments, but GC-O really allows you to connect human perception to instrumental/analytical data.